Cut Stroke Risk 38% By Avoiding This Food

Cut Stroke Risk 38% By Avoiding This Food

In the past two decades, a growing number of researchers have started arguing that one of the biggest risks for high cholesterol and heart disease is inflammation. The Journal of the American College of Cardiology has contributed to this debate in the last month by...
This Nut Boosts Good Cholesterol While Slashing the Bad

This Nut Boosts Good Cholesterol While Slashing the Bad

It tastes great raw, toasted, seasoned, and smoked; it can make milk, butter, oil, and flour, and it now turns out that it can benefit your cholesterol profile too. Researchers from Penn State University have just published a study in the Journal of Nutrition that...
Treat Your Vertigo to Avoid this Health Hazard

Treat Your Vertigo to Avoid this Health Hazard

Vertigo is one of the most common complaints for which people visit emergency departments, but it is also one that is not often treated properly. Korean researchers now explain in the journal Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine that this can cause serious...
Stroke and Heart Attack Despite Good Cholesterol

Stroke and Heart Attack Despite Good Cholesterol

If your cholesterol numbers are good, you may still not be protected from heart attacks and strokes because of something you did during your teens and 20s. That’s because—according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology—it may be...
When Exercising Causes Heart Attack and Death

When Exercising Causes Heart Attack and Death

Is exercise actually good for you? Silly question. Of course it is. But too much of a good thing can be… well… bad. And that’s the case with one particular popular exercise. Do too much of it and your risk of heart attack will start heading skyward. So now you have a...
How To Prevent Vertigo Reoccurrences

How To Prevent Vertigo Reoccurrences

One of the main frustrations for vertigo sufferers is that the condition often returns even after professional medical treatment. A new study in the Journal of Neurology shows what makes us more vulnerable to a reoccurrence of vertigo and what we can do to prevent it....